Luis Chacon is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Senior Scientist of International Stature (Scientist 5) in the Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics group in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Dr. Chacon received his Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1994, and his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998 and 2000, respectively. After graduation, he joined the Theoretical Division at LANL as a Director’s funded Postdoctoral Fellow in 2000, and became a staff member in 2002. He later joined the Fusion Energy Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) from 2008-2012, and returned to LANL in 2012. Luis is currently an Associate and Executive Editor in the Journal of Computational Physics. His research spans many aspects of plasma simulation and algorithm development, including transport, magnetohydrodynamics, and kinetic modeling (both Eulerian and Lagrangian).